Frontiers, regimes and learning from history

Ulbe Bosma, Eric Vanhaute

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Abstract

The complex relationship between capitalist development and rural transformation requires a global historical-comparative approach that takes into account both historical variations and spatial divergencies. We propose the analytical devices of commodity regimes and commodity frontiers to link structural changes with local resistance and accommodation. The concept of the commodity frontier explains how place-specific commodity production shapes and is shaped by the socio-spatial expansion, as well as the deepening and widening, of capitalism’s social division of labour.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
EditorsA. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels, Ben M. McKay
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Chapter2
Pages9-14
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781788972468
ISBN (Print)9781788972451
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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© A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels and Ben M. McKay 2021.

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